A week in the Berkshires for "Greater Boston"
July 21, 2008 www.hubarts.com
Jared Bowen is a one-man Berkshire Arts Festival on WGBH's "Greater Boston" this week, Monday through Thursday nights at 7. Monday he's at Barrington Stage Company, talking about their Musical Theater...Beantown Jazz Fest Kickoff
July 14, 2008 www.hubarts.com
Tickets go on sale Friday for the drum summit at the Berklee Performance Center on Sept. 26 that kicks off this year's Berklee Beantown Jazz Festival. Berklee alum Cindy Blackman (left) and Terri Lynn...Join Me In L.A.
July 9, 2008 www.hubarts.com
Not literally, of course. But I am in California, ensconced at the Beverly Hilton for the day job, blogging the Television Critics Association summer press tour for MeeVee. Fun and frolics, open bars ...Another health problem for James Levine
July 8, 2008 www.hubarts.com
Boston Symphony Orchestra Music Director James Levine has a cyst on his kidney and will miss the rest of the Tanglewood season in order to have the kidney removed. The press release: BSO MUSIC DIRECTO...Skunk, his robots, his disco ball and the Kenny G Eliminator
July 4, 2008 www.hubarts.com
Lester shut out the Yankees and I got the front of the Weekend Arts section. All is right with the world. You can read my story about Somerville artist Skunk and his wild metal sculptures right here, ...Eddie Vedder solo tour coming to Boston
July 3, 2008 www.hubarts.com
Pearl Jam front man Eddie Vedder is building on a West Coast solo tour in April with an eight-city August jaunt that will begin with two shows in Boston, at the Opera House on Aug. 1 and 2. Tix are...R.I.P. Madame Marie: Updated
July 2, 2008 www.hubarts.com
There are enough Bruce Springsteen fans in Boston that some of you will want to hear the sad news: the Asbury Park, N.J., fortune teller Madame Marie has died at age 93. She was immortalized by Spring...Chocolate Cake City, video
June 30, 2008 www.hubarts.com
The folks at Emerson's Chocolate Cake City comedy troupe messaged me with a link to their new video, "Darth Vader Barbershop Quartet." Due to very dubious production values, it failed to move me. (Are...Really bad Obama headline in Globe
June 29, 2008 www.hubarts.com
I'm hardly a slave to political correctness, especially in speech; I worked at the Herald. Still, my eyes 'bout popped out of my head this morning when I saw the headline on Jeff Jacoby's Globe op-ed ...Irish GLBT chorus to sing in Boston
June 26, 2008 www.hubarts.com
I never really thought of Ireland as being gay friendly. Maybe I'm just extrapolating from the repeated squabbles over gay participation in the St. Patrick's Day parade in Southie. On July 11 Boston w...